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| Drinking Windows and Values |
| Drinking window: Drink between 2024 and 2030 (based on 13 user opinions) |
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| Community Tasting Notes (average 91.5 pts. and median of 91 pts. in 11 notes) - hiding notes with no text | | | Tasted by Rbhan12 on 5/12/2024 & rated 91 points: This was a big surprise. 90% carignan if I remember. Drank really well on PnP with maybe 10-15min in the glass. Lighter red fruits, medium-light body, solid acidity and complexity. This one got polished off pretty quickly! (88 views) | | | Tasted by jcassi01 on 1/16/2024 & rated 91 points: Not as good as most vintages but I still like this wine. Solid red fruit with typical high acidity. Always a great food wine (764 views) | | | Tasted by Mike Dildine on 11/25/2023 & rated 92 points: Really nice! (711 views) | | | Tasted by brasstab on 11/24/2023 & rated 93 points: Bright and loud and great fun. Red fruit and white pepper all day long. We put it up against Ridge's Evangelho, which isn't a fair comparison (Ridge's has a big dose of Zin), but so what. It was fun to put this Gen Z wine up against Ridge's Boomer version. The Boomers won in this case (more elegant and balanced), but Desire's wines are always a revelation. This one was no different. (683 views) | | | Tasted by Mike Dildine on 10/31/2023 & rated 93 points: Really expresses this great vineyard! (702 views) | | | Tasted by aaronwine on 10/8/2023 & rated 90 points: Well made wine from a great vineyard. Light and simple in style but delivers at a good price point. Summer backyard drinker. (707 views) | | | Tasted by mkribar on 10/7/2023: West Coast Wine Tasting at K&L: 90% carignan, the rest mataro. Brighter and redder nose than the bedrock version. This actually feels closer to the Dirty and Rowdy variant (RIP) than the Bedrock version, although it's very much of its own. Red cherry, raspberry, hot sand, some sea breeze. Very bright acid on the palate, with candied cherry, cranberry, and granite. A super different expression of the site. (651 views) | | | Tasted by WindFlyer on 10/7/2023 & rated 90 points: magenta-purple in the glass and medium-plus body. red fruit, licorice, fresh herbs and plums on the nose. in mouth it shows a lovely melange of red fruits with touches of herbs, candy, and soil. good acidity and firms tannins that need a bit of bottle age to soften. good length and a fun "food wine".
14% AbV; 90% Carignane/ 10% Mourvèdre field blend. (566 views) | | | Tasted by adnorthup on 6/7/2023: 3 hour decant. 90% carignan, 10% Mourvèdre. Light red fruits, loads of acid, but just an absolute joy to drink. The carignan shines so bright but the Mourvèdre gives a bit of depth and darker fruit on the finish. Evangelho and Cody do it again. (1021 views) | | | Tasted by zscheiner on 4/23/2023: First miss for me from DL, out of a good number of bottlings tried. Just a bit simple, red fruited and a little soft. There is some acid, tart cranberry, but it’s one-dimensional structure. Still a pleasant drink but I expected more from this vineyard and producer. As Tom Hill might say about Carignane, maybe it’s just hard to make a silk purse out of a sow’s ear.
Still a huge DL fan, my favorite discovery of the last couple of years. (822 views) |
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Vinous, Sonoma’s Sensational 2021s (Aug 2023) (8/1/2023)
(Desire Lines Red Wine Evangelho Vineyard North Coast Red) Subscribe to see review text. | By Antonio Galloni
Vinous, 2021 Sonoma Preview (Jan 2023) (1/1/2023)
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| Desire Lines Producer websiteRed Blend.USAAmerican wine has been produced since the 1500s, with the first widespread production beginning in New Mexico in 1628. Today, wine production is undertaken in all fifty states, with California producing 84% of all U.S. wine. The continent of North America is home to several native species of grape, including Vitis labrusca, Vitis riparia, Vitis rotundifolia, and Vitis vulpina, but the wine-making industry is based almost entirely on the cultivation of the European Vitis vinifera, which was introduced by European settlers. With more than 1,100,000 acres (4,500 km2) under vine, the United States is the fourth-largest wine producing country in the world, after Italy, Spain, and France.California2021 vintage: "Unlike almost all other areas of the state, the Russian River Valley had higher than normal crops in 2021, which has made for a wine of greater generosity and fruit forwardness than some of its stablemates." - Morgan Twain-Peterson |
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